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Show ETE Thursday, September 15, 2005 DAILY Iraq of gunbattles broke out between U.S.and Iraqiforces and’ insurgent attackers. Continued from Al In addition Wednesday, ilighe al-Zarqawi tape was a “yesterday.” Theaudiotape was posted later Wednesday. The speaker, introducedas al-Zarqawi,a Jordanian,said his militant forces would attack any Iraqi they believe has cooperated with the “Oncethey comeback, we'll said, he wantsa plan for the city to be in full controlof disaster evacuations,instead of relying on help from the federal government. there were fourdirect attacks on Americans, with 10 soldiers wounded. No U.S. deaths were reported, Al-Jaafari, in the United States for the annual U.N. General Assembly méeting, incredible comfort that this has Adam Ereli said. Healso called Wednesday werecivilians. At Baghdad's Kazimiyah Hospital, dozens of wounded menlay on stretchers and clothes soaked in blood. One older man in a traditional Arab gownand checkered head scarf Satin a plastic chair, his blood- soaked underwear exposed and atrail of dried blood snaking downhis legs. Asthe hourstickedby, at least 1] other car or roadside bombs shattered what had been a few days ofrelative calm in Baghdad. Two mortar attacks werereported and a multitude we've mainly seenis heroism,” hesaid. ued, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco took responsibility ibilit Wednesdayforfailures and missteps by the state governmentin the aftermath of Hur- clearly and unequivocally,” State Department spokesman gurneys,their bandages and torneys Association President Peter Adams said he would be surprised if such incidents were widespread. “What beenfixed, I am not goi ig to be in this position again.” As the grim cleanupcontin- for the victims ofthe attacks,” his office said. “This is an horrific act of terror that hurts innocentcivilians and needs to be condemned Tal Afar offensive. “If proven that me of(Iraq's) national guards,police or army are agents of the Crusaders, they will be killed and his house will be demolished or burned — after evacuating all women and children — as a punishment,” the speakersaid. But mostofthe victims homesandhospitals. But Louisiana District At- “I'm notgoingto plan on the cavalry coming,”he said. “Unless they can give me some expressed “his personal sorrow booby-trapped housein TalAfar, Iraq, on Wednesday. Medicaid Fraud Unit, the team whose work led to Tuesday's negligent homicide charges against the husband-and-wife owners of a Chalmette nursing homewhere 34 elderly residents drownedin floodwaters Kris Wartelle, a spokeswoman for Attorney General CharlesFoti, said the office has been besieged with allegations of neglect that may have led toinjuries or deaths at nursing havethe critical services for them to at least live a semi-normallife,” "he said Wednesday mn CNN’: “Larry King Live.” In thefuture,the mayor wounded in givesfirst aid to an Iraqi soldier injured when he entered a other tasks to work on the then, as well as twohospitals. Atleast six aitooka targeted U.S.forces, Iraqi authorities said. The U.S. military said JACOBSILBERBERG/Associated Press Col. H.R. McMasters, right, commanderof the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, who directs U.S. Army forces in Tal Afar, tors have beenpulled from systems are restored. Some retailers should be operating by official said a people were Al-Qaida in Iraq said in a Thestate attorney general's office saidall ofits investiga- turntothe city within a week or two, when power and sewer struction workers for the U.S. military — in a Sunnivillage northhof Baghdadbefore dawn. That raised the deathtoll in and around the capital Wednesday to 177. A senior Health Ministry ari as saying. Al-Jaafari also needs to be accorded to these remains.” Continued from Al cluding Iraqi drivers and con- on the suicide bomber was a Tian, without offering any details how the identification was made so quickly. ‘The attacks came as U.S. andIraqiforces pressed their offensive against insurgentsin the northern city of Tal Afar andalong the Euphrates River valley, striking hard at whatofficials have said weremilitants sneaking across the border from Syria. oo the nationof Islam, we give you the good newsthat the battles of revenge for the Sunni peopleof Tal Afar began yesterday,” said the al-Qaida statementposted on a militant Web site. Its authenticity could not be confirmed.It was unclear whythe statementreferred to | Katrina | attackers killed 17 men — in- attempt, coming on the heels of the attacks,to create a climateoffear, sow sec: tarian discord andscareI awayfrom the Oct. 15 referenon a new constitution. Iraqiforces arrested two insurgents in connection with fhe yan bombing, one of hem a Palestinian and the other : Libyan, Iraqitelevision quoted PrimeMinister Ibrahim al-Jaaf- Webposting thatit launched the attacks, someless than 10 minutesapart, in response to the Tal Afar offensive, which beganSaturday andevicted mostinsurgents from the city about.50 miles from Syria and 260aes northwest of Bagh- ons HERALD Separately, a Senate committee opened a hearing on the disaster, with the panel's Republican chairwoman saying that changesinstituted after Sept. 1] in the government's ricane Katrina. She pledged to remake New Orleansbetter than before the storm. it “another case of people with no moreagenda otherthan to kill, maim and destroy.” Speakingbefore al-Qaida's claim of responsibility, a senior emergency-preparedness failed their first major test during Katrina. With billions ofdollars to boost disaster preparednessat all levels of government, “we “To anyone whoeven suggests thatthis greatcity should not be rebuilt, hear this and hear it well: We will rebuild,” she said, addressing a meeting of state lawmakersin Baton Rouge. About40 to 50 percentof American military official forecast theclaim,telling The Associated Press he believed the rash of was in retaliation for Tal Afar. would have expecteda sha crisp responsetothis tragedy,” said Sen. lins, R-Maine. “Instead, we witnessed whatappearek to be asluggishinitial response the city wasstill flooded, down Theofficer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because from 80 percent after Katrina hit, as 53 permanentand tem- of the sensitivity of the situa- tion, said the Tal Afar sweep had damagedthe insurgency, which he said was madeup of about 20 percentforeign fighters. “Al-Qaidain Iraqlost basically a base area andtransit President Bushpreparéad porary pumps workedto si- to travel to thestate today to deliver a prime-time televised phonoff 8 billion gallons a day. On the hard-hit east side, block after block of once- speechto the nation. Louisiana Transportation flooded neighborhoods gave waytoa slimy, putrid muck, ruined cars, snappedutility poles andcollapsed houses. point comingacross the Syrian officials estimated Wednesday that about 1.2 million people wereevacuated from the metro New Orleans areain Virtuallyall homes bore border. That will severely inhibit their operationsatleast in the short term,” the officer said. the two days leading up to Ka- trina’s Aug.29landfall, many marksindicating they had been searchedforvictims. of those peoplestill scattered in otherstates. Noneinsight during a pass through neighborhoods had an additional numeral that would Ophelia Morethan 120,000 homes and businesses were without power in eastern North Carolina, electric utilities said. storm'spassage through North On Ocean Isle Beach, south Carolinato take 48 hours from of Carolina Beach, a 50-foot the start of rainfall on the south- section of beachfront road was eastern coast Tuesday afterwashed out by heavy surf and noonto the storm’s anticipated the only bridgeto theisland exit into the Atlantic late today. was closed. he storm had sustained Video broadcast by Durham’s winds of 85 mph, the National TV from Carteret CounHurricaneCenter said. Hurty on the central coast showed a ricane warningscovered the section from the endof a hotel's entire North Carolina coast fishing pier breaking off and from the South Carolina line to floating away. Virginia, wherea tropical storm Jetnella Gibbs and her family warning covered the mouth of made their wayto a shelter at a Chesapeake Bay. Craven County high schoolafMorethan 12 inches of rain ter the rain started Tuesday. hadfallen on Oak Island at the “Wenoticed the street was mouthof the Cape Fear River, starting to fill up, and I said, ‘It's time to go,’” she said. “I said meteorologist Jeff Orrock with the National Weather Ser- knowif this little bit here has vice in Raleigh. flooded the street, what will it Continued from Al do whenit really pours?” The storm's eye was expectedto brushthecoast be- tween midnight and 2 a.m., but it might not comeashore, saic Bob Frederick, meteorologist at the weatherservice bureau at Newport, N.C. place to commandanyfederal responsethe storm might require. ana aloneclimbedto 474 on ing path to the coast gave FEMA moretimeto getstaff on the groundthanis usually the tedioust hurricanes, said Shelley Boone, the agency’s team leader for maybe years,”said Dr. Louis Cataldi, the coroner for Baton Rouge Parish. “This is not go- emergency declaration for 37 counties in eastern North Caro- ing away. Coast ‘Guard Vice At Adm. Thad Allen, head of the federal hurricane response, outlined Cape Lookout on the Outer Banks. Hurricane-force winds ofat least 74 mph extended 50 Ophelia. President Bushissued an forecasters said some strength- lina, authorizing the Depart- ening was possible. Followingthe criticism ofits response to Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 250 workers on the ground — largerthan-usual contingent given Ophelia’s size. FEMAalsoput a military officer, Coast Guard Wednesday, andit was expect- sistanceto keep payingits teachers. Thelast paychecks ed torise further a: ate and federalofficials went about The storm’s slow, meander- the case with North Carolina miles out from the center and Orleans’ alreadybeleaguered The bodycount in Louisi- Rear Adm.Brian Peterman,in At 9 p.m. EDT,the center of Ophelia’s large eye remained about 35 miles southwest of A day after Nagin said the cityis essentially broke, New indicate bodies. were being madeavailable at k of collecting WesternUnionlocations to 7,000 employeesspread across bodies and then using DNA to id tify them. “It’s going to take months, | FEMAtocoordinatedisaster relief efforts. Easley said he had spokento Across shattered city, the most obvious sign of progress camein the form offlickering lights. About 168,000 custom- ers werestill without powerin the NewOrleans area, mostly in placesstill flooded, but that number had gone down10,000 ina day lection, including readings of ecumenical prayers and ceremonial washingof bodies HomelandSecurity chief Mi- chael Chertoff and that National will be out of money. the proceduresfor body col- ment of Homeland Security and Guard teams were preparedto the nation, but after that $13 millionis doled out, the system | > Assoc!jiated Presswriters AdamNossiter, Brett Martel, in accordance withvariousreligious traditions. “This is a very, very sensi- Mary Foster, David Crary and Lisa Meyercontributed to tive process,” Allensaid. “We are mindfulof the dignity that evacuatesick, frail and elderly residents. this report. LOOK WHAT'S NEW TODAY! Call 373-6450 to have your classified ads in this section! 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